Chinese Company has Built the Largets 16MW Turbine in the World

In East China’s Fujian Province, the nation’s first 16-megawatt offshore wind turbine rolled off the assembly line on Wednesday. The turbine represents cutting-edge research and production breakthrough to reach world-class levels. It has the most excellent single-unit capacity and the largest impeller in the world.

The wind turbine has a propeller diameter of 252 meters and a swept area of 50,000 square meters, equal to seven conventional soccer fields. According to CTG, the 16-megawatt wind turbine has the longest impeller diameter in the world, at 827 feet (252 meters), the lightest weight per megawatt, and a hub that is 480 feet (146 meters) high, or the height of a 50-story building.

The wind turbine marks a breakthrough in manufacturing high-quality wind turbines and was developed collaboratively by CRG and Xinjiang Goldwind Sci & Tech Co., Ltd. China’s Three Gorges (CTG) and Goldwind worked together on the project. The partners claimed that China is now “leading, not following” in the wind industry.

The 16MW unit, according to CTG and Goldwind, is the most potent generator ever constructed. According to CTG, the huge rotor diameter of the turbine gives a swept area of 50,000 meters, which can provide 36,000 houses’ worth of electricity yearly.

Mingshan asserted that “China’s wind turbine production has led the world following leap-forward development.”

Largets 16MW Turbine

The new turbine is a behemoth and may propel China to the forefront of wind energy research. Given that it was unveiled not long after the same partners unveiled a 13.6MW turbine, the latest gigantic turbine comes as a bit of a surprise. The scale of models anticipated by western rivals Vestas, Siemens Gamesa, and GE is currently being met and exceeded by a group of Chinese original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). This has put Goldwind at the head of this group, together with the new turbine.

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With the 16MW unit’s successful roll-out, the wind power equipment industry in my nation has made the historic transition from ‘following’ to ‘running alongside’ and then to ‘leading,’ producing It was referred to as “the most recent standard for the development of international offshore wind producing equipment” by Lei Mingshan, chairman of CTG.

The CTG head asserted that the model was developed in response to requests made by Chinese authorities for the independent development of cutting-edge technology that complies with international standards in key industries.

The 16MW Unit has Achieved Significant Technological Advances

China Three Gorges and Goldwind unveiled a 13.6 MW, wind turbine model

Goldwind Chief Engineer Zhai Endi continued, “The 16MW unit has made significant technological advances in the R&D and manufacturing of critical core components such as huge main shaft bearings and ultra-long lightweight blades.”

According to Endi, “the digital level of unit operation status monitoring is high, and it can intelligently alter the operation mode for extreme weather like typhoons.”

According to Recharge News, the Goldwind/CTG decision was made shortly after another Chinese business, MingYang, also working on a 16MW model, declared that it would release a 14MW version the following year. According to Recharge, CSSC Haizhuang would unveil its 16.7MW offshore design.

The OEMs aspire to succeed in China’s massive domestic offshore wind business, which is currently the largest in the world, as well as gradually farther afield, where they hope to displace western rivals who have so far dominated outside of Chinese waters.

The new turbine is a behemoth and may propel China to the forefront of wind energy research. Given that it was unveiled not long after the same partners unveiled a 13.6MW turbine, the latest gigantic turbine comes as a bit of a surprise. The scale of models anticipated by western rivals Vestas, Siemens Gamesa, and GE is currently being met and exceeded by a group of Chinese original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). This has put Goldwind at the head of this group, together with the new turbine.

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